Ace: It's the is the first single off the album. It only has two parts, and sometimes that's all you really need. The lyrics are about what great power money has these days, how it affects people, and how the whole world is turning around it... whether we like it or not. The lyrics are really straight forward, with a very simple theme which touches and affects everybody living in the modern world.

Damon: Originally released on "Hex", this was literally a last minute recording featuring an impromptu live piano and vocal performance. The band liked the tune so much, we arranged it and started played it live. When it came time to record "Gallows", we felt the song was worthy enough to give it another go...low and behold, we did and it became the first single! Lyrics are the key to this song and they are constantly relevant and reoccurring in my life. Unfortunately, people never disappoint me.

Singer Robert Plant has already announced that he has no plans to join them, as he was committed to his work with Alison Krauss, although they could be reunited with him in "a couple of years."

The singer and actress was among seven family members and close friends who cried and held hands as they identified Julian King's body from a live image on a television screen at the Cook County Medical Examiner's office Monday afternoon.

Amy Winehouse was rushed to hospital last night (October 26) after suffering from a suspected chest infection. According to the Daily Mirror, the singer was taken to the London Clinic when her condition deteriorated after a doctor visited her at her home on Thursday (October 23).

The 13 men were being driven from a gig in Glasgow to the next venue in Lincoln early on Saturday morning when their driver noticed a problem with the bus.

Legendary British rock band The Kinks have taken a step closer to a reunion - frontman Ray Davies' brother Dave is back on his feet after a long illness. The 60s rockers are keen to reunite for live gigs and to record new material, but Davies revealed last month that they were only "three quarters of the way" towards their dream because Dave Davies still feels the effects of a stroke he suffered in 2004.more

"Momma Sed," the third video from Puscifer's debut album, V is for V****a, is currently streaming on Puscifer's YouTube page (youtube.com/pusciferdotcom) with a higher quality version available on Oct. 28 via iTunes.

Motown Records patriarch Berry Gordy Jr. and hundreds of others attended Monday's funeral for legendary Four Tops frontman Levi Stubbs, whose stirring baritone made the group one of the most recognizable in American music during the 1960s and into the '70s.more

The Damned will be appearing on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on October 30th and 31st. The performance is to support the band's brand new album, So, Who's Paranoid which is due out digitally on October 28, 2008. more

In another setback on her "Rock Witchu" tour, Janet Jackson has lost her opening act: LL Cool J. Add your own "going back to Cali" joke here.more

Opening statements in the murder retrial of music legend Phil Spector have been set for Wednesday after six alternate jurors were chosen. more

The official full trailer for the upcoming Notorious B.I.G. biopic, Notorious, has debuted. The film is out January 16 and the trailer can be viewed here

As I Lay Dying will be filming a string of dates in November for their first ever DVD to be released in the spring of 2009. The DVD will include live performances, backstage footage, interviews, photos, production videos, and a documentarymore

A statue honoring AC/DC's Bon Scott was unveiled at the Fremantle Fishing Boat Harbour in Western Australia on Saturday.more

Dillinger Escape Plan has posted an update to their MySpace page revealing that they will be playing at Soundwave in 2009�presumably as a replacement for Scars On Broadway, who controversially canceled all their future live commitmentsmore

Two members of Mest have resurfaced with a new project, The Twilight and the Sound. The band features Jeremiah Rangel and Matt Lovato from the pop-punk outfit, and describes their influences as The Cure, Deftones, Weezer and Interpol.more

Christina Aguilera and iLike announced that the first music video ("Keeps Gettin' Better") from Christina Aguilera's Keeps Gettin' Better � A Decade of Hits, will world premiere on iLike and iLike's Facebook app this afternoon (October 27 - the day they sent this to us a.k.a. yesterday), two weeks before the album becomes exclusively available at Target and Target.com (on November 11). If you care to view it, go here

We told you a tale about Enuff Z'nuff yesterday based on a message board posting by a band member. We pointed out that we weren't sure if he was being serious or not and included the quote that led to us questioning the seriousness of the posting. Turns out he wasn't being serious. No one has been shot, it was just a bad joke. Sadly, some other media outlets did pick up the story and left out the bit about not knowing if the message board post was serious or not. What can you do? Thankfully some did include a link to us so people could read the story in context if they clicked over. That doesn't always happen. But why the band didn't perform is still a big mystery.

Ted Leo And The Pharmacists have cancelled all upcoming dates. Band leader Ted Leo had only this to say: "Tour has been canceled due to a personal emergency. I am sorry." more

The Murdered has announced the addition of rhythm guitarist Dan Nelson. more

"Skratch N Sniff's Metallica Monster Mash" will feature custom Metallica remixes done by DJ Mike Czech and Malcolm from Skratch N Sniff and guest hosting spots from Metallica band members, mixed along with lots of other ghostly and ghoulish songs and sounds to create a perfect Halloween party mix.

This DVD will follow the November 17th UK release of Nickelback's new album 'Dark Horse'. 'Live At Sturgis' is the first DVD to contain all new material from the band in over two years. It captures Nickelback in all of its sprawling glory as the guys pound out a set full of fan favourites and modern day classics from the band's first three multi-million selling albums 'Silver Side Up' (2001), 'The Long Road' (2003) & 'All The Right Reasons' (2005).

"Kurdt Vanderhoof (guitar) has been suffering from serious bulging discs in his lower back and will have to be in regular spinal rehabilitation to correct the problem."

Kurdt released this statement earlier today: "I have been living with severe pain almost constantly for the past four years and I have to do whatever possible to get healthy again.

In its first three weeks at radio, the song has already reached #7 at Active Rock and #26 at Modern Rock, according to BDS. Fans can tune into the nationally syndicated radio show "Rockline" on Monday, November 10 to hear a live interview with Mudvayne (check local listings for air times).

"Regretfully we have to do this, but due to personal matters at home we have been forced to drop of the last week of our tour. We hate to do this, but sometimes important things come up, and we need to be there for the ones we love.

Appropriately hosted by legendary shock rocker Alice Cooper, the eight-hour marathon featuring the odd occupants of 1313 Mockingbird Lane will air Friday, October 31st from 4:00 pm ET (1:00 p.m. PT) to Midnight ET (9:00 p.m. PT).

ALICE COOPER will be hosting the openings and interstitials for all 16 episodes of "The Munsters."

Support for the tour package will be rounded out by Britain's own Johnny Truant for the UK dates and Germany's Deadlock for the mainland European leg of the tour.

In October of 2004, I received the sad news from The Magic Band's booking agent, Dan Silver, that John Peel had passed away. The Magic Band had just done his live show at Maida Vale in July and it had been a very pleasant reunion for me, as I recalled John quite well from the first Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band tour. He personally gave a tearful introduction to us at the Middle Earth before our first performance in the UK. Renting a Mini-Cooper, he and his wife drove Don and I to several of the venues.

I read the news as I was just starting to work on another composition for my CD, "City of Refuge." It became through inspiration a bittersweet instrumental tribute to John "Ravenscroft" Peel, and I titled it "To the Loft of Ravenscroft."

It's a piece with several sections and features bass solos in the style of Mark "Rockette Morton" Boston in the first half, then goes into a simple chordal pattern overlaid by a guitar solo, and finishes in a slightly-chaotic AABA type pattern with a soprano sax solo over the top. I worked hard to make it a listenable piece yet allowed myself to break the music rules so that it could soar away in a victorious flight that ends rather abruptly. The silence at the end is the real statement. An historic life is behind us.